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Comments sought on natural anchor design 31-Jul-2012 At 2:15:01 PM pmonks

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On 31/07/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>I use an old climbing rope for this sort of nonsense

As do I - a 10.5mm Mammut Flash that took very few lead falls while in service.

>the stretch doesn't matter because I pad the top edge

Whereas I get the anchor point for the dynamic rope over the tope edge so I don't have to worry about it rubbing over the top edge at all. Of course I still I have to pad the anchor rope (which is an 11mm static).

>If I owned a static I'd be happy to use that too, would just
>pay a little more attention to not letting slack build up.

I wouldn't. Burns said it pretty well: "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley / and at that point you'd better have / a farkin' good backup plan in place!" (or words to that effect).